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Increasing tea consumption
By Donna Berry
Functional benefits and new flavors are adding new options to the ready-to-drink tea category.
After water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world, with almost all users other than Americans drinking the beverage hot. Iced tea is considered a U.S. phenomenon and one that has been growing in popularity since the debut of Snapple in 1980.
Retail dollar sales of ready-to-drink (R.-T.-D.) tea have slowed this past year compared to the double-digit growth of the past decade, according to "Tea and ready-to-drink tea in the U.S, 5th edition" from the market research firm Packaged Facts, Rockville, Md. Further, Packaged Facts projects retail dollar sales growth will be nominal in the next five years, with most activity coming from the convenience channel. The report suggests there's a great deal of opportunity for iced tea in the food service category for freshley brewed and fountain offerings, as well as R.-T.-D. options.
One obstacle to further growth of the category is tea consumption skews female, a point driven home by tea's association as healthy and even dainty, e.g., floral tea cups, tea rooms, etc.
"But the flipside is that plenty of opportunity exists to make tea drinking a bit more manly," said David Sprinkle, research director at Packaged Facts. "Brand acceptance by gender provides evidence that men are looking for more masculine tea products. AriZona and Nestea are the only brands that seem to resonate as much with men as they do with women. AriZona has surely benefitted from its association with golf legend Arnold Palmer, but its packaging — with checkerboard design and bold colors — also skews toward the more masculine.
"There's more marketers can do to drive tea's appeal among the male demographic. At present many marketers have developed products specifically suited for women; for example, Yogi Tea offers a full line of Woman's Tea formulated to help support the female system. There's opportunity to market tea to men in the form of functional benefits such as energy, virility and stress-relief."
Though new Uncle Si's Iced Tea makes no such functional promises, its licensed affiliation is bound to appeal to men.
"It's the only tea to carry the name of Duck Commander and America's beloved Si Robertson," said Joe Ragazzo, vice-president of sales at Chinook USA, Prospect, Ky., licensees of beverages for Duck Commander, West Monroe, La. "It's based on the Robertson family's brewed-to-perfection family recipe. TV viewers often see Si drinking tea out of his blue Tupperware cup that his mom sent to him while serving in the Army."
Chinook sources a blend of tea leaves from S&D Coffee & Tea, Concord, N.C., to duplicate the recipe.
"The premium tea leaves are gently brewed by simply applying heated water and steeping them the old-fashioned way," Mr. Ragazzo said.
Uncle Si's Iced Tea comes in R.-T.-D. 16-oz single-serve plastic bottles. There's also a fresh-brewed version for food service. The shelf-stable bottled teas come in four varieties, with one being unsweetened. The three cane sugar-sweetened versions are Half & Half (half iced tea/half lemonade), peach tea and sweet tea.
A functional foundation
Regarding functional ingredients, R.-T.-D. brewed teas are inherently functional beverages due to abundant catechins intrinsic to tea leaves. Marketers are starting to build on tea's health value through the addition of additional nutrients.
For example, Titan Tea, New York, is introducing a namesake beverage designed for active people.
"I have always loved brewed tea," said John Gagliardi, company founder and former Team USA lacrosse player. "In fact, I grew up drinking very sweet freshly brewed tea. As I got older, I reduced my consumption of refined sugar."
He learned that properly brewed tea may taste great without a lot of added sugar.
"As a professional athlete, I was looking for something healthy that would help me hydrate before practice, stay energized when training and refuel after a hard game, but without being full of sugar or artificial ingredients," Mr. Gagliardi said. "When I noticed that my energy levels were unusually low, I went to a nutritionist and found out I was deficient in ribose. I began supplementing twice daily to regain my energy levels and it worked."
Ribose, an organic compound naturally produced by the human body, supplies energy to cells and aids in the recovery of muscles. When Mr. Gagliardi set out to develop a better-for-you brewed tea, he wanted ribose to be a part of the formulation.
Sourcing organic Fair Trade tea from Sri Lanka, Mr. Gagliardi works with a co-packer who steeps the leaves for 12 hours, a brewing process he believes produces the best-tasting tea. The tea then is infused with electrolytes, ribose and caffeine for sustained energy. The combination of ingredients provides the benefits of drinking a sports hydration drink with the flavor of a cold-brewed tea.
Lightly sweetened with organic cane sugar to keep calories low, Titan Tea comes in four flavors: lemon black tea, peach green tea, pomegranate green tea and raspberry black tea.
Targeting a specific demographic presents an opportunity to grow the category.
"Today's consumers expect a greater degree of customization in any product they buy and beverage choices are no exception," Mr. Sprinkle of Packaged Facts said. "This has led to personalization not being just a trend, but an expectation. To that end, tea marketers must be actively looking for avenues to personalize tea drinking."
This is true in both R.-T.-D. and food service offerings.
Zone 8 Beverages, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., markets a namesake tea designed to appeal to the millennial demographic, which may include an ethnically diverse network of friends, who are native label readers and who are better educated about food and its importance to good health, according to the company.
"The current beverage market lacks brands addressing cultural relevance that appeal to customers in an authentic way," said Tim Megenbier, president and co-founder. "We see this as an opportunity to engage with consumers and provide a connection for them as individuals and as a diverse group. Consumers can now experience flavors of the world and they can share and relate to the authentic flavor profiles that we are bringing to market."
The line comes in four varieties: Agua de Jamaica Hibiscus Tea, Black Tea, Honey Lemon Tea and Red Rooibos Pomegranate. Packaged in 16.9-oz plastic bottles, the teas contain zero to 88 calories.
On the food service side, Bee & Tea, Chicago, is on a mission to make boba tea a mainstream treat. Boba tea, a traditional Taiwanese beverage, is made with a milk-tea base and personalized with topping, flavor and sweetener options, much like the coffee drinks ordered at Starbucks. Toppings include honey tapioca boba, agar-agar, fruit-flavored bursting boba and flavored jellies. The company's specialty bubbles sink to the bottom of each drink, getting picked up through a fat straw.
Other ways to differentiate
In efforts to create a point of differentiation in the R.-T.-D. tea category, AriZona Beverage USA, Woodbury, N.Y., is rolling out AriZona Oak Reserve, the first tea steeped with oak chips, according to the company. It comes in three flavors: unsweetened, lightly sweetened and lemon.
As part of a revamp, Honest Tea, Bethesda, Md., a division of The Coca Cola Co., Atlanta, is using Fair Trade Certified organic sugar in its sweetened tea varieties. The move coincides with a packaging redesign with the new label touting the company's pledge of "1% for the Planet."
The company also is introducing a new variety — raspberry tea — a Fair Trade Certified organic black tea from southern India. It is made with organic raspberry juice, blackberry leaves and sweetened with cane sugar.
Suja Juice Co., San Diego, recently launched a line of cold-brewed, organic, non-GMO Project Verified and cold-pressured teas. Cold pressure, also known as high-pressure processing, retains food quality, maintains freshness and extends microbiological shelf life without heating to high temperatures.
The range includes Chunmee Tropical, a blend of chunmee green tea and the tropical flavors of pineapple, mango and lime, and sweetened with honey and coconut palm sugar. Honeybush Peach features honeybush and tulsi teas with peach and honey. Jasmine Pomegranate blends jasmine tea with lemon, pomegranate, tamarind and honey.
The final variety is Unsweetened Biodynamic Black, which is a blend of Nilgiri, Darjeeling and Assam teas. It is Demeter Certified Biodynamic, which is a certification for biodynamic agriculture.
In/Fusion is a beverage created in 2012 by the In/Fusion Co. of Paris, and is now being imported into the United States by Brands Within Reach, Mamaroneck, N.Y. The beverages blend fruit juices with herbal teas for a caffeine-free, no-added-sugar aseptically packaged drink that comes in two varieties: Peach-Vervain-Lemon and Pomegranate-Blackcurrant-Blackcurrant Leaf-Peppermint.
Talking Rain Beverage Co., Seattle, is growing its zero-calorie iced tea line with Sparkling Ice Tea. This lightly carbonated blend of brewed black tea, green tea and fruit juice is unlike any other R.-T.-D. tea in the marketplace.
"Consumers are searching for refreshing beverage alternatives, and we noticed a largely untapped and growing category, which presented Sparkling Ice beverages with the opportunity to deliver a line of zero calorie sparkling teas," said Kevin Klock, president and chief executive officer.
Indeed, there are many opportunities in the R.-T.-D. tea category. It will be these innovations that grow the category.
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The Earth is Spinning Faster Now Than the Last 50 Years
If you were hoping that 2020 would fly by, it did, by half a second.
By Marcia Wendorf
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From the time atomic clocks began to be widely used in the 1960s, Earth's timekeepers have had to add the occasional "leap second" to them in order to keep them in sync with solar time. Solar time is determined by the Earth's position in relation to the Sun, the Moon, and the stars.
A second is defined by atomic clocks as 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation emitted by a cesium-133 atom as it transitions between the two hyperfine levels of its ground state. Over the past 50 years, it has taken Earth slightly more than 24 hours, or 86,400 seconds, to complete a single rotation about its axis, and because of this, timekeepers have added 27 "leap seconds" to atomic clocks since the 1970s.
Earth's rotation about its axis. Source: mapichai/iStock
Leap seconds are added at 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), usually on June 30th or December 31st. Leap seconds were added on June 30th in both 2012 and 2015, and the last time a "leap second" was added was on New Year's Eve 2016, when clocks the world over paused for a second.
Leap seconds are added simultaneously around the world, for example, the leap second added on December 31, 2005, occurred at 23:59:60 UTC, 18:59:60 (6:59:60 p.m.) in U.S. Eastern Standard Time and January 1, 2006, 08:59:60 (a.m.) in Japan Standard Time.
2020 was a very odd year
Due to COVID-19, 2020 was already a very odd year, and then something really odd started happening — instead of slowing, as it had over the course of the last century, Earth's rotation sped up. It now it takes slightly less than 24 hours to complete a full rotation, and timekeepers at the Paris-based International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS) were faced with the decision of whether to add a "negative leap second," which has never been done before.
Graph of the length of 2020's days. Source: Marcia Wendorf
The changeover to a faster rotation occurred at the midpoint of 2020, in July. July 19, 2020 was the shortest day on record, at 1.4602 milliseconds shorter than a full 24 hours. (A millisecond is 1/1000 of a second). In fact, 28 days of 2020 set records for the shortest day, each surpassing the previous record holder for the shortest day, which occurred back in 2005.
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Senior research scientist at the Time and Frequency Group at the UK's National Physical Laboratory recently told The Telegraph newspaper, "It is certainly correct that the Earth is spinning faster now than at any time in the last 50 years. It's quite possible that a negative leap second will be needed if the Earth's rotation rate increases further, but it's too early to say if this is likely to happen."
In July 2020, IERS announced that they wouldn't add a negative leap second on December 31, 2020, however, their next opportunity to add a negative leap second is June 30, 2021.
Planetary scientists are not concerned about the speeding up; they have learned that there are many factors that have an impact on the planetary spin—including the moon's pull, snowfall levels, mountain erosion, and possibly global warming. Computer scientists, on the other hand, have more to worry about, as so much of modern technology is based on what can be described as "true time."
On July 1, 2012, a leap second was added, and it brought down many of the day's most popular websites including, Reddit, FourSquare, Yelp, LinkedIn, Gawker, and Qantas.
The extra second confused the servers of many companies, which expected every minute to last for 60 seconds, and not 61 seconds. A commenter on the Programming subreddit recently wrote, "There has never been a negative leap second, and if there is one, everyone who deals with NTP or kernel timekeeping code expects that it will be an appalling sh**show."
The effects of a shorter day
On average, today's days are .5 second shorter than a full 24 hours, and while you're not likely to notice the effect yourself, it has an enormous impact on satellites, telecommunications equipment, and computers, all of which require that solar time match the time kept by atomic clocks.
Software programmers have difficulty dealing with either positive or negative leap seconds because they make time appear to go either backwards or forwards. For financial markets in the U.S., the addition of a leap second occurs during a trading day and can cause havoc.
After the insertion of a leap second on June 30, 2015, the Intercontinental Exchange, which owns clearing houses and stock exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, had to cease operations for 61 minutes. That leap second also caused a 40-minute interruption on Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Netflix, Amazon, and Apple's streaming music service.
Google's servers dealt with the June 30, 2015 leap second by "smearing" it out over a 24-hour period. On its servers, Amazon followed a different format, which led to Google and Amazon being timewise out of sync with each other for a day.
A commenter on the Y Combinator website explained the problem of adding a negative leap second as: "Going back one second is what generally happens now when a Linux box does the "inserting leap second" thing. It goes from 23:59:59.999999 to 23:59:59.000000, then runs that whole second again. You get to 23:59:59.999999 again, and then you finally roll over to 00:00:00.000000. From the perspective of the typical time_t rendering of Unix time, there is no way to uniquely represent that 61st second. It just 'disappears'.
What's causing Earth's rotation to speed up?
A 2015 study in Science Advances attributed Earth's faster rotation to global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt, thus increasing sea levels. This redistribution of mass is making the Earth more round, and this in turn is making it spin more quickly.
On April 11, 2011, a devastating magnitude-9.0 earthquake struck northeastern Japan. Besides unleashing a powerful tsunami that killed around 16,000 people and caused a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the earthquake also displaced portions of the Earth's crust. This sped up the planet's rotation, causing April 11th to be 1.6 millionths of a second shorter than other days that year.
So, if you thought that 2020 dragged on forever, or else flew by, Earth clearly had its own opinion on the matter, and only time will tell if this speedup will continue.
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CITY COUNCIL DOCKET
CHAPLAIN OF THE MONTH:
Reverend John Modest Miles-Morning Star Baptist Church
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:
SPECIAL ACTIONS:
COUNCILMEMBERS CIRCO, BROOKS, CURLS, DAVIS, FORD, GLOVER, JAMES, JR., JOHNSON, MARCASON, REED, SHARP, TAYLOR AND WAGNER
130962 RESOLUTION — Honoring Joseph Ricks on his retirement after 40 years of dedicated service to the City of Kansas City, Missouri.
COUNCILMEMBERS CURLS, BROOKS, CIRCO, DAVIS, FORD, GLOVER, JAMES, JR., JOHNSON, MARCASON, REED, SHARP, TAYLOR AND WAGNER
130963 RESOLUTION — Honoring Major Rosilyn D. Allen on her retirement from the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department after 30 years of dedicated service.
COUNCILMEMBERS BROOKS, CURLS, CIRCO, DAVIS, FORD, GLOVER, JAMES, JR., JOHNSON, MARCASON, REED, SHARP, TAYLOR AND WAGNER
130964 RESOLUTION — Honoring Mickey Dean on his retirement from the City of Kansas City, Missouri after 20 years of dedicated service.
COUNCILMEMBERS MARCASON, WAGNER, BROOKS, CIRCO, CURLS, DAVIS, FORD, GLOVER, JAMES, JR., JOHNSON, REED, SHARP AND TAYLOR
130968 RESOLUTION — Honoring Kristin Danner as a Rich Noll Pacesetter for December, 2013.
COUNCILMEMBERS REED, SHARP, BROOKS, CIRCO, CURLS, DAVIS, FORD, GLOVER, JAMES, JR., JOHNSON, MARCASON, TAYLOR AND WAGNER
130969 RESOLUTION — Honoring Betty Wilckens on the occasion of her retirement.
COUNCILMEMBERS SHARP, BROOKS, CIRCO, CURLS, DAVIS, FORD, GLOVER, JAMES, JR., JOHNSON, MARCASON, REED, TAYLOR AND WAGNER
130970 RESOLUTION — Honoring Lowell Gard, City Prosecutor, on his retirement.
COUNCILMEMBERS TAYLOR, CIRCO, WAGNER, FORD, JOHNSON, JAMES, JR., MARCASON, CURLS AND REED
130976 RESOLUTION — Recognizing the perfect score achieved by the City of Kansas City, Missouri on the Municipal Equality Index.
COUNCILMEMBERS WAGNER, TAYLOR, CIRCO, SHARP, JOHNSON, CURLS, REED AND GLOVER
130978 RESOLUTION — Recognizing Bob Chien for receiving the Honorable Citizen Recognition from the City of Xi'an, China.
130965 COMMUNICATION - December 2013 - Accepting various easements and deeds in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri and directing the City Clerk to record the acceptance.
RECEIVED AND FILED
130966 COMMUNICATION - December 2013 - Accepting various easements and deeds in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri and directing the City Clerk to record the acceptance.
130967 COMMUNICATION - December 2013 - Accepting various easements and deeds in Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri and directing the City Clerk to record the acceptance.
130973 COMMUNICATION - Notice received from the Kansas City Board of Elections Authority regarding the certification results of an insufficient amount of signatures for the petition entitled: Initiative Petition to Enact Restrictions on Demolishing, Replacing and Constructing Passenger Terminals in City-Controlled Airports.
130975 COMMUNICATION - Notice received from the City Clerk to the Mayor and Council regarding the results of the petition entitled; Initiative Petition to Enact Restrictions on Demolishing, Replacing and Constructing Passenger Terminals in City-Controlled Airports. The results for the petitions were insufficient.
FINAL READINGS:
CONSENT DOCKET
FINANCE, GOVERNANCE & ETHICS COMMITTEE
130956 RESOLUTION - Expressing the support of the Mayor and City Council for the use of electronic payment methods for City employees and vendors.
FINANCE, GOVERNANCE & ETHICS COMMITTEE recommends "Immediate Adoption As A Consent"
TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE
130931 Authorizing a one-year land lease with Transport Partners and Logistics, LLC, at KCI; and estimating revenue.
TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE recommends "Do Pass"
Legislation Text Fact Sheet Fiscal Note
DEBATE DOCKET
130937 Amending Chapters 2, 34, 48, 56, 60, 62, 64 and 78, Code of Ordinances, to establish uniform provisions on interest, penalties, installment payments, default and liens for special assessments; and establishing an effective date.
FINANCE, GOVERNANCE & ETHICS COMMITTEE recommends "Do Pass"
Legislation Text Fact Sheet
COUNCILMEMBER WAGNER
130957 RESOLUTION - Establishing a Sister City relationship with the city of Yan'an, Shaanxi, China, and authorizing the Mayor to take all appropriate measures necessary for the implementation of the relationship.
FINANCE, GOVERNANCE & ETHICS COMMITTEE recommends "Immediate Adoption"
PLANNING, ZONING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
130929 (Sub.) Declaring an area generally bounded by Gladstone Boulevard, Norledge Avenue and Independence Avenue on the north; N. Wheeling Avenue, Belmont Boulevard and N. Chouteau Trafficway on the east; Wilson Avenue, the Kansas City Terminal Railway tracks and I-70 on the south; and Benton Boulevard, Jackson Avenue and Elmwood Avenue on the west to be a blighted and insanitary area in need of redevelopment and rehabilitation pursuant to the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority law and approving the Urban Renewal Plan for the same, said plan to be known as the Indian Mound-Lykins Urban Renewal Plan. (703-S)
PLANNING, ZONING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE recommends "Do Pass as a Committee Substitute"
130939 Approving a development plan in District DX-15 on approximately a 1.2 acre tract of land, generally located north of 16th Street between Main Street and Baltimore Avenue. (14423-P)
PLANNING, ZONING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE recommends "Do Pass"
130935 Authorizing a terminal lease agreement with ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. at KCI.
130936 Authorizing a terminal lease agreement with Republic Airlines, Inc. at KCI.
COMMITTEE ADVANCES:
130952 Approving and authorizing execution of a contract in the amount of $148,463.00 with the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority for the City to provide the Authority certain litigation services during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014.
FINANCE, GOVERNANCE & ETHICS COMMITTEE recommends "Advance and Do Pass, Consent"
130945 Authorizing traffic signal modifications; estimating revenue in the amount of $360,000.00 in the Capital Improvements Fund; appropriating that amount to the traffic signal interconnect along Truman between Charlotte and Winchester account; and designating requisitioning authority.
TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE recommends "Advance and Do Pass, Consent"
130948 Authorizing a $430,000.00 contract with Burns and McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc. for the Water Main Replacement in the Area of McGee to Chestnut, 65th Street to 89th Street project.
130949 Authorizing a $413,000.00 contract with Black and Veatch Corporation for the Water Main Replacement in the Area of N. Oak Trafficway to N. Mersington Avenue, N.E. 39th Terrace to N.E. Englewood Road project.
NEIGHBORHOODS, HOUSING & HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
130947 Accepting and approving a three-year $1,271,319.00 grant award agreement from the U.S. Department of Justice, to provide funding through the Aim4Peace Program which supports initiatives with proven multi-disciplinary, community-based strategies to reduce violence; designating requisitioning authority; and recognizing an emergency.
NEIGHBORHOODS, HOUSING & HEALTHY COMMUNITIES recommends "Advance and Do Pass, Debate"
COUNCILMEMBER FORD
130907 (Sub.) Approving an amendment to an approved development plan in District M 2-3 on approximately 158.21 acres generally located at the southwest corner of N. Congress Avenue and N.W. 108th Street to allow for a temporary access road to become a private drive and to depict an office/warehouse building on Lot 2. (13886-P-6)
PLANNING, ZONING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE recommends "Advance and Do Pass as a Committee Substitute, Debate"
PUBLIC SAFETY & EMERGENCY SERVICES COMMITTEE
COUNCILMEMBER SHARP AND COUNCILMEMBER WAGNER
130946 Amending Chapter 34, Code of Ordinances, by repealing Sections 34-361, 34-362, 34-364, 34-367, 34-369, 34-378 and 34-379 relating to the Prehospital Emergency Medical Services System and enacting in lieu thereof seven new sections of like number relating to the same subject matter.
PUBLIC SAFETY & EMERGENCY SERVICES COMMITTEE recommends "Advance and Do Pass, Debate"
COUNCILMEMBER REED AND COUNCILMEMBER CURLS
130953 (Sub.) Authorizing an amendment to a contract with Helix Architecture + Design for approximately $2,300,000.00 for the Kansas City Police Department East Patrol Campus Project; and recognizing an emergency.
TRANSPORTATION & INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE recommends "Advance and Do Pass, Debate"
SECOND READINGS:
FIRST READINGS:
Councilmember Marcason, Chair
COUNCILMEMBER CIRCO
130972 (Sub.) Cancelling the City Council standing committee meetings and legislative and business sessions for the weeks of February 10, 2014; March 10, 2014; June 30, 2014; August 4, 2014; November 17, 2014; December 22, 2014; and December 29, 2014; and changing the meeting dates for the week of November 24, 2014.
COUNCILMEMBERS TAYLOR, CIRCO, WAGNER AND JAMES, JR.
130984 RESOLUTION - Directing the City Manager to evaluate and report back regarding the Human Rights Campaign's Municipal Equality Index.
Councilmember Curls, Chair
130977 RESOLUTION - Approving the 2014 One Year Action Plan ("Plan") in accordance with the National Affordable Housing Act of 1990, as amended.
130979 Accepting and approving a one-year $69,880.00 contract with the Missouri Department of Health and Human Services to conduct tuberculosis control activities in Kansas City, Missouri.
130980 Accepting and approving a one-year $327,292.00 grant award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the SHELTER PLUS CARE program and authorizing the Director of Health to enter into a one-year $327,292.00 contract with SAVE, Inc.to provide housing assistance for homeless men, women and children in the Kansas City area.
130981 Amending the 2008 One Year Action Plan and authorizing submittal of a Substantial Amendment to the U.S. Department of Housing and Community Development for its consideration in order to permit a new activity to be funded and amend the budget for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program-1; appropriating $196,936.21 in the Neighborhood Stabilization Program Fund; authorizing the Director of Neighborhoods and Housing Services to execute a contract with the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council in an amount not to exceed $912,000.00 for costs associated with Ivanhoe 39th Street Gateway Project- Phase I; and designating requisitioning authority.
Councilmember Ford, Chair
130971 Approving the plat of Tiffany Woods at Rose Creek – Third Plat, an addition in Platte County, Missouri; accepting various easements; establishing grades on public ways; authorizing the Director of City Development to execute and/or accept certain agreements; and authorizing the City Clerk to record this ordinance and attached documents. (SD1068G)
130974 Changing the name of N.W. Prairie View Road from the intersection of N.W. Tiffany Springs Parkway and N.W. Prairie View Road to the intersection of N. Congress Avenue and N.W. Prairie View Road to N. Congress Avenue in Kansas City, Platte County, Missouri.
130982 Approving an amendment to a previously approved development plan in District UR on approximately a 79.55 acre tract of land generally bounded by Front Street, Century Avenue, Interstate 435 and the Rock Island and Milwaukee Railroad right of way. (10343-UR-10)
130983 (Sub.) Establishing the Urban Agricultural Zone Advisory Commission for the purposes of advising the City in establishing policies for urban agricultural zones.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS:
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(1) RSMo. because it relates to legal action, causes of actions, or litigation.
**Legal Issue(s) will be discussed in closed session pursuant to §610.021(1)
RSMo because it relates to confidential and privileged communications
between City Council and its attorneys.
***Personnel Issue(s) will be discussed in closed session pursuant to
§610.021(3) RSMo because it relates to personnel matter.
****Real estate transaction(s) may be discussed pursuant to Sec. 610.021(2),
RSMo. because public knowledge of the transaction(s) at this time might
adversely affect the legal consideration therefor.
*****Employee/Labor negotiation item(s) may be discussed in a closed
session pursuant to §610.021(9) RSMo. because it relates to preparation for
negotiations with employee groups.
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Potempa, J.
Koziel, J.
Citrullination-Resistant LL-37 Is a Potent Antimicrobial Agent in the Inflammatory Environment High in Arginine Deiminase Activity
Danuta Bryzek
1,† ,
Anna Golda
Joanna Budziaszek
Dominik Kowalczyk
Alicia Wong
Ewa Bielecka
Priyanka Shakamuri
Jan Pohl
Jan Potempa
1,4,* and
Joanna Koziel
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Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology of Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Krakow, Poland
Malopolska Center of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Krakow, Poland
Biotechnology Core Facility Branch, Division of Scientific Resources, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Department of Oral Immunity and Infectious Diseases, University of Louisville School of Dentistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40202, USA
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21(23), 9126; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21239126
Received: 14 November 2020 / Revised: 26 November 2020 / Accepted: 27 November 2020 / Published: 30 November 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Peptides for Health Benefits 2020)
LL-37, the only member of the mammalian cathelicidin in humans, plays an essential role in innate immunity by killing pathogens and regulating the inflammatory response. However, at an inflammatory focus, arginine residues in LL-37 can be converted to citrulline via a reaction catalyzed by peptidyl-arginine deiminases (PAD2 and PAD4), which are expressed in neutrophils and are highly active during the formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs). Citrullination impairs the bactericidal activity of LL-37 and abrogates its immunomodulatory functions. Therefore, we hypothesized that citrullination-resistant LL-37 variants would retain the functionality of the native peptide in the presence of PADs. To test this hypothesis, we synthetized LL-37 in which arginine residues were substituted by homoarginine (hArg-LL-37). Bactericidal activity of hArg-LL-37 was comparable with that of native LL-37, but neither treatment with PAD4 nor exposure to NETs affected the antibacterial and immunomodulatory activities of hArg-LL-37. Importantly, the susceptibilities of LL-37 and hArg-LL-37 to degradation by proteases did not significantly differ. Collectively, we demonstrated that citrullination-resistant hArg-LL-37 is an attractive lead compound for the generation of new agents to treat bacterial infections and other inflammatory diseases associated with enhanced PAD activity. Moreover, our results provide a proof-of-concept for synthesis of therapeutic peptides using homoarginine. View Full-Text
Keywords: LL-37; arginine; homoarginine; citrullination; NETs LL-37; arginine; homoarginine; citrullination; NETs
Bryzek, D.; Golda, A.; Budziaszek, J.; Kowalczyk, D.; Wong, A.; Bielecka, E.; Shakamuri, P.; Svoboda, P.; Pohl, J.; Potempa, J.; Koziel, J. Citrullination-Resistant LL-37 Is a Potent Antimicrobial Agent in the Inflammatory Environment High in Arginine Deiminase Activity. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 9126. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21239126
Bryzek D, Golda A, Budziaszek J, Kowalczyk D, Wong A, Bielecka E, Shakamuri P, Svoboda P, Pohl J, Potempa J, Koziel J. Citrullination-Resistant LL-37 Is a Potent Antimicrobial Agent in the Inflammatory Environment High in Arginine Deiminase Activity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2020; 21(23):9126. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21239126
Bryzek, Danuta; Golda, Anna; Budziaszek, Joanna; Kowalczyk, Dominik; Wong, Alicia; Bielecka, Ewa; Shakamuri, Priyanka; Svoboda, Pavel; Pohl, Jan; Potempa, Jan; Koziel, Joanna. 2020. "Citrullination-Resistant LL-37 Is a Potent Antimicrobial Agent in the Inflammatory Environment High in Arginine Deiminase Activity" Int. J. Mol. Sci. 21, no. 23: 9126. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21239126
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Lessons Were Learned From Recent Epidemics, But We're Still Not Prepared Enough, Expert Says
Dr. Raj Panjabi talks about what experts have learned since Ebola, and the devastating effects cuts to foreign aid would have on the health of Americans. In other public health news: regulating beauty products, stem cells, a "miraculous" oxygen treatment and more.
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The Wall Street Journal: Congress Weighs Expanding FDA Power To Regulate Beauty Products
The Food and Drug Administration has received dozens of reports over a decade about hair-straightening treatments that contain the carcinogen formaldehyde and can sicken salon workers and customers with burning and blisters in the nose and throat, nausea, and flulike symptoms. (Burton and Hackman, 8/18)
The Star Tribune: Mayo, U Develop 'Robocop' Stem Cells To Fight Cancer
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota say they're on the brink of a new era in cancer care — one in which doctors extract a patient's white blood cells, have them genetically engineered in a lab, and put them back to become personalized cancer-fighting machines. The so-called CAR T cellular therapies are expected to receive federal approval this fall for certain rare blood cancers — B-cell forms of lymphoma and leukemia. (Olson, 8/19)
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Kristal Carlson, of Fayetteville, Ark., was taking a shower Feb. 29, 2016, as Eden slipped through her baby gate and fell into their backyard swimming pool. Eden nearly drowned and was technically deceased for two hours. Doctors at Arkansas Children's Hospital were certain the brain-damaged toddler would never walk, talk or react to the world again. ...It was not long until her husband came across a medical treatment called hyperbaric oxygen therapy, which involves inhaling pure oxygen in a tube or room with air pressure three times higher than normal. With this newfound knowledge at hand, the Carlsons reached out to researchers at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine and the University of North Dakota School of Medicine to save Eden. (Nobles, 8/18)
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Do I get a notification when one of my comments gets flagged or deleted because it was flagged?
Did anything change recently that made moderators delete comments more frequently than before?
In the last week, you've had 34 comments deleted. 6 of those were deleted by moderators, the remaining 28 you deleted yourself. Only one of the moderator-deleted comments was removed within minutes, the others were removed within 1-8 hours of being placed.
All of the moderator-removed comments were in response to flags. The one that was deleted within minutes was the most recent comment you had flagged, which is why this might appear to be a trend. I don't perceive such a trend among comment deletion times right now.
I deleted that comment, and got to it quickly simply because the queue of flagged comments had been worked down to nearly 0 at that time. Flag-handling time is variable. Queue size, number of flags on the same comment, type of flag, and time of day all play a role in how fast a moderator will handle a particular comment.
We do occasionally delete comments that have not been flagged, but that's usually because something else has drawn us to a post (an ongoing fight, flags on the post itself, etc.). Almost all comments that I see being deleted by moderators are in response to flags.
There are exceptions in the case of comments containing certain trigger words (obscenities, "what have you tried"-style phrases, I forget the others) where a single community flag can immediately delete a comment even without moderator involvement. None of your recent comments have been subject to that, but it is a possibility. That still requires someone to manually flag the comment.
As for notifications about flagged comments, that only happens when a moderator sees a problematic trend in these comments and manually writes a message describing the problem. The system doesn't automatically warn you about deleted comments, just as you are not notified about deleted questions or answers.
It's rare (not impossible, but rare) for a mod to delete a comment that they didn't come across as a result of a flag, but it is common for them to respond to flags on a comment by deleting all comments under the post, or all of the comments in that particular line of discussion (if they feel that there's a series of comments on the same topic that's either inappropriate, or no longer relevant after deletion of the inappropriate comments). You can be pretty confident that either the comment was flagged, or other comments on that post were flagged, if it was deleted.
No. In very serious situations, where moderators find a pattern of very inappropriate behavior they may choose to send a moderator message to you about the numerous comments of yours deleted for a reason that they'll explain to you. But very few deleted comments result in this, most are just silently deleted.
The data to say empirically isn't public. I don't think moderators are materially changing how they handle comment flags. They have made numerous changes recently (some technical, some not) to try to get people to cast more flags (which would result in more deletions), and they've done more to make it clear to users that they've been very liberal in what types of comments they're willing to delete for quite some time. This isn't a change in how they handle flags so much as a lot of more recent attention and publicity to how they handle flags (which affects both how many flags people cast, and also may result in people noticing how mods are handling comment flags more than before). They've said that they're not changing how they handle comment flags, and my anecdotal experience has been that they're correct, and that this is how they've been handling flags for a long time.
Comments are pretty much only deleted by non-authors if flagged.
Moderators can delete comments but only take action when they are flagged to do so.
There's no notification, after all if your comment was flagged we don't want to encourage you to write it again and again and again. That has happened, the user doing it was eventually suspended when they refused to stop despite moderators asking them not to repost the same comment repeatedly.
Only someone with access to the underlying database could tell whether comments are being deleted more frequently now than in the past. This would only be because they are being flagged more often. That may be the case with the new flag text/options for comments and the various meta/blog posts about whether Stack Overflow is welcoming or not.
A short answer to supplement the already excellent existing answers.
There has been an increase in comment flagging, resulting in an increase in comment deletion.
Can we have some statistics on the potential change in rate of comment flags?
Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged discussion comments deleted-comments .
How to handle critiques made in comments on my answers?
Comment flag notification on the top corner, why?


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The Kupiansk civilian convoy shelling was a deliberate killing of Ukrainian civilians carried out by the Russian Army on 25 September 2022 on the Kurylivka-Pishchane highway near Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. Twenty-six civilians were killed, half of whom were children.

At that time, the section of the road was in the "gray zone". The Ukrainian military was not able to reach the scene until 1 October 2022.

History
During late September 2022, the Armed Forces of Ukraine staged an offensive attack to liberate Russian-occupied territory in the Kharkiv region. The town of Kupyansk-Vuzlovy and nearby villages were liberated on September 27.

Three days later, on September 30, Ukrainian soldiers found the bodies of civilians on the outskirts of the village of Kurylivka. The corpses were discovered in six cars and a van that had been shot and burned out while trying to leave in the direction of the village of Pishchane.

Following news reports, seven witnesses to the tragedy came forward. They had managed to escape to the village of Kivsharivka. According to their testimony, on the morning of September 25, their evacuation convoy left Kurylivka in the direction of Svatove, Starobilsk, through what they believed was the only road open - all other roads had bridges destroyed, and the village was limited by a river and a swamp.  At about 9 o'clock their column was ambushed by a Russian sabotage group which shot at the convoy from both sides. Infantry weapons were used to kill the wounded and those who tried to escape.

Law enforcement officers subsequently identified all the victims of the motorcade as local residents. Among the dead was a carrier who organized the refugee convoy, he had charged 6,000 Hryvnias per person for evacuation and was a former resident of Kupyansk-Vuzlovoi.

During the shooting, two children – 1 years old and  years old – managed to escape. The children's parents died in the column. Preliminary data said there were about 24 dead, among them a pregnant woman and 13 children. Twelve of the dead had been named by October 20 2022.

A further victim was discovered on October 17 2022 – a 19-year-old youth was wounded who died in a forest lane from his injuries after walking 1.5 kilometres. The number of dead was finally reckoned as 26 people, 22 people managed to escape.

Some of the physical evidence (the bodies of the victims and the car) was examined by French experts. They discovered signs of the use of 30 mm and 45 mm high-explosive shells, as well as VOG-17 and VOG-25 grenades.

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Archive for February 20th, 2010
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY IN LONDON MARCH 8
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From Reinvestigate 911
Venue now fixed: SOAS in central London, 7.30pm
Please forward to green, peace, Palestinian, black and women's networks
1,000 ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS DEMAND NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION
Official 9/11 story not scientific and cannot be true, say experts
REINVESTIGATE ACTIVISTS MEETING TOMORROW THURSDAY FEB 18
UK GENERAL ELECTION PLANS
Kick out the neocons in all parties
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Directions: Russell Square tube in Central London.
Walk west along north side of Russell Square to Thornhaugh Street.
Good news for UK human rights, peace movement, greens and 9/11 activists. Cynthia McKinney, for many years a congressional representative from Atlanta Georgia, and most recently US Green Party candidate for president, will be addressing a parliamentary meeting and later a public meeting on March 8 (International Women's Day) at London University's prestigious School of African and Oriental Studies.
The meetings have been organised by Reinvestigate 911 but Cynthia will be heard by people active in many campaigns. For many years Cynthia used her seat in Congress to give a platform to many disadvantaged groups, but in the end the Washington oligarchy was able to remove her. A vicious media campaign, lack of support from the Democratic leadership, massive funding of her local opponents and a well organised Republican crossover vote saw her removed in a primary in her Georgia constituency.
As well as supporting the rights of women, native Americans and others at home, Cynthia is a supporter of the Palestinian cause and risked her life on a boat that tried to lift the blockade of Gaza last year. She was arrested and held incommunicado in Israel for nearly a week.
Like the US Green Party, the UK Green Party, Reinvestigate 911 and most sensible 9/11 sceptics, Cynthia does not claim to know exactly how the 9/11 attacks really happened or exactly who was behind them – just that the event has gravely suspicious features, fitted in perfectly with the pre-existing neocon plans to seize Iraq, and that a real investigation has never been mounted. Cynthia was the only representative to ask public questions in Congress about the Pentagon's "anti-hijack exercise" that was running at the time the 9/11 attacks took place.
Other speakers include Nafeez Ahmed a terrorism expert who has investigated the links between the CIA and "Al Qaeda".
In addition organisers are planning a slideshow and videos including leading French humorist Jean-Marie Bigard making fun of the official 9/11 story. There will also be a surprise speech by The Queen. (It's on a rather fuzzy video but it's been reliably authenticated by the CIA and their friends over at the BBC Conspiracy Files) .
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth are holding a major press conference in San Francisco this Friday Feb. 19th, at 11:00 AM to mark the 1000th expert to sign up to the demand for an independent scientific investigation into the rapid and symmetrical collapse of three high rise buildings on September 11 2001, buildings which were expressly designed to withstand an impact with a fully laden passenger jet.
http://www.ae911truth.org/actionalerts/2010/02/action_1000_PC_update.php
AE are calling on cities all around the world organize mini press conferences, so that the information will spontaneously gel everywhere at once. Even if the press does not come, A&E are asking people to gather in front of an official building, read out the announcement, and take a photograph, and send it to A&E for their website..
Already in many parts of the world few believe the official story of 9/11, but the corporate media blackout of 9/11 evidence is crumbling even in places like Canada, Denmark, Holland, Germany and France.
This working meeting is by invitation. Please contact info@reinvestigate911.org for the details. Anyone offering concrete help is welcome. We will be planning publicity for the Cynthia McKinney visit and discussing election strategy
If you know of any candidates who are calling for a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks, please contact info@reinvestigate911.org. Here is a quick guide to the political landscape, based on our lobbying experience. There are 9/11 sceptics in all parties, as we know from organising our meetings in Parliament. The Green Party has voted for a new 9/11 investigation but in the teeth of fierce opposition form the careerist wing, led by Darren Johnson, their candidate in Lewisham. Libdems are widely sceptical but many are nervous of going public until after the election. Labour and the Tories have very mixed views. Some on the Left quietly welcomed 9/11 as payback for US policies, others support us. Libertarian tories (including at least one one-time Thatcherite) are more suspicious of 9/11 than mainstream tories.
We are calling on all anti-war activists, those worried about the emerging global oligarchy and those who support civil liberties at home to unite around a viable election strategy. One possibility, modelled on the highly successful Israel lobby, would be to target the worst candidates, the warmongers, for removal, and try to achieve a hung parliament as the next best thing to kicking out the scoundrels who we can't remove.
Reinvestigate 9/11
http://www.reinvestigate911.org
info@reinvestigate911.org
We will support any new investigation of the 9/11 attacks so long as
*it is run by uncompromised people with a range of opinion including those inclined to disbelieve the official 9/11 story,
*it has full legal authority to demand immediate access to any evidence and any witness it chooses
*it follows the evidence wherever it leads
*it is given all the resources it requires to carry out its investigation
Reinvestigate 911 is supported by Coffee Plant (www.coffee.uk.com) suppliers of organic and Fairtrade coffees to caterers and retail customers. Phone 0208 453 1144


China has developed a new plan to address the on-going issue of space debris with a laser! The idea is to create a satellite with an attached laser powerful enough to heat up large particles of space debris. The changing of the object's mass would ideally change it's orbit and burn up in the Earth's atmosphere acting as a "broom".
The idea is still in the beginning phases and require a lot of heavy testing to determine its efficacy. Other worries include the legalities of the debris (being the property of their originating satellites) as well as on going suspicions of its use as "weapon-like technology".
Another promising idea for cleaning up our planet!


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Kimmy Dora on "The Buzz"
Excited ka na bang kumeme sa September 2? Gora na tayiz sa mga sinehan at sabay sabay kumeme with your family and friends - I already made arrangements with some of them to watch Eugene Domingo's first solo movie break, "Kimmy Dora - Ang Kambal sa Kiyeme".
Last Sunday, Uge/Kimmy/Dora made me laugh on her live TV guesting with Boy Abunda on "The Buzz". Watch her mutate from Kimmy to Dora, and back to being herself, Uge.


Many people lack access to reliable, affordable transportation, which makes it difficult to get to stores and other places that offer healthy food options.
Many communities lack safe routes for people who walk, use a wheelchair or scooter, or ride their bike to food sources.
Safety issues—such as being a pedestrian after dark or working alone in a community garden – can limit access to healthy food.
Everyone needs affordable, easy ways to get to places that offer healthy options.
Many people rely on public transportation to get to their preferred food sources (such as stores, food shelves, or farmers markets).
Sometimes the public transit routes are lengthy, do not offer stops near these food sources, or offer infrequent or inconvenient scheduling.
Many rural communities and some city neighborhoods don't have nearby food sources or stores offering healthy, affordable groceries.
Some people have mobility issues that keep them from shopping in person.
Long winters mean cold temperatures and icy streets and sidewalks. Walking, biking and taking the bus can be dangerous.


You know how everyone has a certain style? Where it's really just changing one thing and making it a whole new look? That's me -- work, weekend, night out, it's all the same with a minor tweak.
As much as I love to wear skirts and dresses, I'm a jeans girl. And I wasn't always this way! You have to really fall in love with a pair of jeans to become a jeans girl. More on that soon... (I'm doing a review of my all time favorite jeans) but until then lets talk about this work to weekend look! From fall to early spring I'm layering. I layer for warmth or style and I'll do it all the time. My favorite item to layer with (this should be no surprise) is my Ralph Lauren oxford. I have -- no joke -- three of these shirts to rotate through and I buy a new one and toss a dingy one every couple years. They've been a staple in my closet since college and I don't know if that it will ever change. My favorite thing to layer over the oxford? A sweater. Especially when it has buttons on the side! This is 110% a great item to wear now and later -- the perfect transition sweater. It's lightweight, SO soft and it's navy and white! But one thing I really want to highlight in this post is my new bag. I was drawn to it because it looked like a designer bag and then REALLY drawn to it because it was SO affordable!! I love the navy (obviously) but I love the overall look and style of this bag. The gold rings are so cute, it has a long strap for everyday use and it comes with the cutest little zip pouch that you can take out and use on it's own. I'm not the biggest bad lady (I have my few favorites and thats it) but I'm so happy I purchased this. I carry it everywhere!!


The third and final part of EpicTV's #EpicSpainShred was a late spring trip to Europe's most southerly ski resort of Sierra Nevada in Andalucia - you can even see Morocco from the top on a clear day and being that it's the sunniest resort in Europe, that's most of the time! It also saw a change of personnel as UK superstar quad-flipping snowboarder Billy Morgan and Swiss model / TV host / ex-pipe skier Olympian Mirjam Jaeger take over for the last leg of this journey, filmed in April 2016, when most ski resorts in Europe have already shut. Sierra Nevada made us feel very welcome and made sure we had plenty of activities during the trip, which included slushy park laps, a super-booter built especially for Billy, night-skiing and a sunset kicker session. Off the slopes was spent enjoying beers in the sun, a trip to nearby Granada to see the beautiful Alhambra Palace, and even a beach trip for wake-boarding & stand-up-paddle boarding! It's all looking good for the FIS Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships 2017 World Championships in Sierra Nevada - if you get a chance to check it out, we'd recommend it!


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What did it take for Buffalo to land a nonstop route to L.A.? Canadians and cheap jet fuel.
What did it take for a city the size of Buffalo to land its only nonstop route to California? A bunch of Canadians and cheap jet fuel.
JetBlue announced last week that it would add non-stop service starting this June between Buffalo and Los Angeles, giving Buffalo its only regularly scheduled flight to the West Coast.
One key to making it work, JetBlue says, is to lure Canadians across the border.
It's already happening on other flights at the airport. Bargain-seeking Canadian fliers accounted for at least a third of all passengers last year at Buffalo/Niagara International Airport, where fares can be dramatically cheaper than on flights for the same routes from Toronto – only about 100 miles away.
JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., were on hand at a Buffalo airport press conference to announce the new flights last week , and each made a sales pitch to Canadian travelers. But it was Schumer, who frequently champions aviation in the state, who offered the most-direct plea.
"We are telling Canada residents, when you want to fly to California, don't do it out of Toronto," Schumer said. "Get in your car, take the short drive and fly here."
Relying on customers from another country may sound unusual, but that's how it works for Buffalo and other U.S. airports along the border with Canada.
"That's not a surprise," Douglas Hartmayer, spokesman for the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority that operates both the Buffalo/Niagara and nearby Niagara Falls International airports, said about JetBlue's plan to help fill its L.A. flights with passengers from north of the border. "Canadians have been patronizing our airport for many years in great numbers."
That's tended to work out for Buffalo, where the metro area's population – currently at about 1.1 million – has been in slow decline since the 1970s, according U.S. Census data.
"Certainly, airlines with a large presence in Buffalo – like JetBlue and Southwest – have benefited from that," he says. "And because of how cheap fuel is, an airline like JetBlue can take chance on a non-stop route like Los Angeles" that would have been riskier financially a few years back when fuel prices were higher.
But Buffalo is not the only place where airlines are trying routes that depend on the Canadian market.
From Bellingham, Wash., to Bangor, Maine, passenger counts at many U.S. airports along the border are bolstered by Canadians looking for cheaper fares and non-stop flights to popular U.S. destinations.
How else to explain non-stop flights to places such as Hawaii, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Palm Springs from the small market of Bellingham, Wash.? The city has only about 80,000 residents, but its airport sits just 60 miles from downtown Vancouver – Canada's third-largest metro.
Bellingham International Airport doesn't keep a precise count but estimates about 65% of its customers come from Canada.
"We do know a significant number of Canadian passengers utilize our airport to take advantage of cheap parking and low cost flights to 10 different non-stop locations," Director of Aviation Sunil Harman says in an email.
Plattsburgh has only about 20,000 residents, but offers non-stop flights to destinations like Fort Lauderdale; Myrtle Beach, S.C. and St. Petersburg, Fla.. They're kept afloat in large part with Canadians from Montreal, Canada's second-largest city that's just 70 miles away on Interstate-quality highways.
Tiny Minot, N.D. – population 46,000 – has service to big airline hubs such as Minneapolis and Denver. But the city's service to Las Vegas and Mesa, Ariz., on leisure carrier Allegiant is buoyed by Minot's proximity to Canada, just 60 miles to the north. It's a similar set-up for Grand Forks, N.D., located about 80 miles south of the border. It too has service to traditional airline hubs, but Allegiant's nonstop service to Las Vegas, Mesa and Orlando is made possible by demand from Canadians.
Allegiant is one of the most aggressive carriers in adding border-city flights that rely on travelers from Canada. The company flies to nine cities where Canadian customers represent a significant portion of its customer base.
Johnson says that in both U.S. and Canadian border communities, "there are a number of things people will cross the border" to buy if the price is right – and that includes flights. "We're just capitalizing on that," he says of Allegiant's presence in places such as Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Minot, N.D.
Canadians tend to pay more than their American counterparts for flights of comparable distances. And they can shave even more off fares to the U.S. by driving across the border since domestic flights are not subject to international taxes that apply to trans-border flights.
Price differences can vary by market or time of year, but significant savings can be found. A Feb. 18-21 itinerary from Vancouver to Palm Springs, for example, costs $392 with a connection or $609 for a non-stop, according to a Feb. 5 search on Kayak.com. From Bellingham, Allegiant was selling non-stops for the same dates for $144 – a saving of $248 over the connecting Vancouver itinerary. A family of four would save nearly $1,000 by making the 60-mile drive to Bellingham.
The differences aren't always as stark, however. A search on Feb. 5 for a March 5-12 itinerary to Fort Lauderdale returned $154 non-stops from Niagara Falls, which compared to a $219 non-stop from Buffalo or a $240 non-stop from Toronto.
In Buffalo, the influx of Canadians has been enough for service to flourish at two airports in the metro area. By contrast, cities much bigger than Buffalo – such as Atlanta, Denver and Las Vegas – are served by just one airport for commercial airline service.
Traffic at Niagara Falls International Airport – only 20 miles from much-bigger Buffalo/Niagara – is booming on the strength of Canadian customers. Flights on discounters Spirit and Allegiant propelled the Niagara Falls airport to an all-time passenger record in 2015, with Canadians accounting for four out of every five of the 233,302 passengers.
Still, JetBlue's new Buffalo and Los Angeles flight was viewed as something of a surprise among most industry observers. Neither city is a hub for JetBlue, meaning the route's success will hinge on finding enough passengers specifically seeking to fly between L.A. and Buffalo. Since JetBlue flies only a handful of routes from each city, it will not be able to rely on connecting fliers to help fill its planes between Buffalo and LAX.
"We carry a lot of Canadians on our Buffalo-Fort Lauderdale and Buffalo-Orlando service today. So we know they're willing to drive across the border and take JetBlue. We expect the same will happen on an even longer trip out to L.A.," says Dave Clark, JetBlue's VP of Network Planning.
Like JetBlue, Southwest's Buffalo operation also draws from north of the border.
"We have a significant number of Canadian customers who fly out of Buffalo Niagara International Airport and interest in leisure travel for all Customers remains strong," Dave Doty, Southwest's senior manager, Network Planning, says in an e-mail to Today in the Sky. "In fact, we recently announced seasonal low-fare nonstop service between Buffalo and Denver and look forward to other ways to keep our offering robust going forward."
Even with the strength that the Canadian market adds to Buffalo, JetBlue's Clark says it's important to remember both sides of the border.
"But I don't want to overlook the Buffalo part of it, too," he adds, saying he thinks JetBlue "will stimulate the Buffalo market significantly also."
Beyond that, JetBlue, Southwest and others must hope that the trend of Canadian customers continues, even as a strong U.S. dollar has made flying from the USA significantly more expensive for Canadians during the past year.
"There's a little concern on our part," acknowledges Hartmayer, spokesman for the Buffalo-area airports.
For now, however, optimism remains that the Los Angeles flights will be a success – both for JetBlue and for Buffalo's airport.
"We're looking forward to having these flights full when they depart the airport come June," Hartmayer says.


A special month for increasing devotional service to Krishna.
We interviewed Lives of the Vaishnava Acharyas host Chaturatma Dasa to hear his experience of yearly taking vows to observe the month of Karttika, which in the Vaishnava tradition carries with it great spiritual benefits. He discusses the origin of this tradition, its roots in scripture, and discusses the many benefits anyone can achieve from observing certain practices each year during October and November, the month of Damodara or Karttika.


Even in our supposedly liberal culture there are still things we find impossible to talk about, or even to admit to ourselves. One of them is the fact that we sometimes feel relieved when a partner, spouse or parent dies. We feel that we should be sad or at least be seen to be sad when an unloved family member passes away.
If we secretly do feel relieved we usually feel very guilty about it. It's not allowed, not acceptable. "Do not speak ill of the dead!" we learn. Why is that? Because if we do they might haunt us? This could be one possible, unconscious fear. Or is it because so many who live in unhappy families or relationships still do everything to keep up appearances because they feel ashamed and embarrassed.
The collective expectation is still that we live in happy families and relationships even if reality is so different. An old friend of mine who allowed me to tell this story had a very difficult relationship with her father who was a violent and volatile alcoholic. She grew up in fear and never knew what disaster was going to happen next. She left home very young and after many years felt that she was over it and had forgiven her father. But when he died she didn't feel loss but huge relief. She realised that her whole life she had been waiting for this day.
The night before the funeral she couldn't sleep and noticed that all the old anger and hurt was surfacing again. Unexpected words formed in her mind, saying: "If there is a heaven and you are in that heaven, then I will never want to be in that same heaven with you! I never want to see you again in all eternity!" She was shocked and surprised by this and realised that she hadn't made her peace with her father after all.
At the funeral she shed some tears but not tears of sadness but tears of rage. After the funeral she went home and called a therapist to help her to work through and get to terms with her overwhelming anger and hurt that she still carried with her. In therapy she finally felt able to express what she really felt without being judged or condemned.
She learned that there was no need to feel guilty about her feelings and that to express her anger, her pain, and her grief for what she never had in her relationship with her father (love, warmth, security, encouragement, praise, play, laughter) slowly healed the wound in her heart. She emerged from the process with new energy, zest for life and peace of heart. Finally her father didn't haunt her anymore.
Solitude "It's all your fault!"


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I Tubeway Army sono stati un gruppo musicale punk rock e new wave londinese fondato nel 1977 da Gary Webb, poi Gary Numan, e Paul Gardiner.

Storia
Nel 1976, all'età di 19 anni, Webb lascia il gruppo "Mean Street" di Londra per unirsi ai "The Lasers", in cui Gardiner suonava il basso. Successivamente i due lasciano il gruppo e fondano i Tubeway Army insieme a Jess Lidyard, lo zio di Numan, alla batteria. I tre assumono i nomi d'arte "Valerian" (Webb), "Scarlett" (Gardiner) e "Rael" (Lidyard).

Webb è un compositore di successo, prolifico e ambizioso. Il gruppo inizia a esibirsi nella scena punk 77 di Londra e riesce a ottenere un contratto discografico con l'etichetta Beggars Banquet Records, con cui pubblica due singoli nella prima metà del 1978. I brani però non ottengono successo.

Successivamente, il gruppo pubblica un album e Webb adotta il nome d'arte "Gary Numan". L'album, pur rimanendo in ambito prettamente punk rock con chitarra, basso e batteria, vede i primi tentativi di inserire negli arrangiamenti un sintetizzatore Minimoog.

I testi riguardano tematiche fantascientifiche e distopiche tipiche di autori quali Philip K. Dick. Nonostante la vendita di tutto il primo lotto di stampa, l'album non riesce a entrare nelle classifiche e nessun singolo viene estratto. Da quel momento il gruppo prende la decisione di abbandonare gli spettacoli dal vivo a causa dell'eccessiva violenza della scena punk londinese. L'unica registrazione live del gruppo, effettuata nel febbraio del 1978, viene pubblicata come bootleg nei primi anni ottanta e successivamente incluso nella ristampa in CD del 1998 dell'album Tubeway Army, col titolo Living Ornaments '78.

All'inizio del 1979, il gruppo torna in studio per le registrazioni di Replicas, il secondo album, con maggiore presenza di sintetizzatori e dalle atmosfere ancora più orientate alla fantascienza rispetto al precedente. Down in the Park, il primo singolo estratto, non entra in classifica, invece Are 'Friends' Electric?, il secondo, ottiene un buon successo. Una speciale edizione dell'album in picture disc fa sì che il singolo entri in classifica, ma ciò che permette al gruppo di fare breccia nel pubblico sono le apparizioni ai popolari programmi televisivi The Old Grey Whistle Test, della BBC, e Top of the Pops, dove si esibiscono in completo nero e con un Numan dalle movenze quasi robotiche, caratteristica che diverrà presto il suo marchio di fabbrica.

Il singolo rimane al primo posto della classifica inglese per quattro settimane nel mese di luglio, permettendo all'album di seguirlo a ruota in quella degli album più venduti. Per via delle continue apparizioni televisive, il gruppo recluterà altri musicisti.

Numan diviene così il primo artista di genere elettronico in Gran Bretagna a ottenere successo commerciale. Questo lo spinge ad abbandonare il gruppo e intraprendere la carriera solista.

Formazione
Membri originari
 Gary Numan - voce, chitarra, tastiere, sintetizzatori
 Paul Gardiner - basso
 Jess Lydiard – batteria

Membri addizionali
 Bob Simmonds – batteria (fine 1977, inizio 1978)
 Barry Benn – batteria (metà 1978)
 Sean Burke – chitarra (metà 1978)
 Chris Payne – sintetizzatori (1979)
 Billy Currie (dagli Ultravox) – sintetizzatori (1979)
 Cedric Sharpley – batteria (1979)
 Trevor Grant – chitarra (1979)

Discografia

Album in studio
1978 - Tubeway Army
1979 - Replicas

Singoli
1978 - That's Too Bad
1978 - Bombers
1979 - Down in the Park
1979 - Are 'Friends' Electric?

Raccolte
1984 - The Plan

Note

Collegamenti esterni


Congenital heart conditions are the most common birth defect in the UK. Around 5000 babies are born with a malformation of the heart each year. Of these, two out of three will survive beyond infancy. A further 1000 children will acquire a heart condition because of an illness or medical treatment that damages their heart.
Heart children are often small for their age and those who have surgery will have physical scars, but in other respects, it may not be obvious that they have a health condition. Whatever challenges they face, with interruptions to the usual childhood activities of playing and spending time with friends, going to school, going on holiday, growing up and looking forward to the future – heart children often talk about how they want to be treated like other children. And with good planning, support and creative thinking, heart children can share in the range of activities most of us take for granted.
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As children with heart problems grow up they will eventually need to be seen by health service professionals who specialise in adult health. In the past there was very little, if any, preparation for the families and young people before their transfer to adult services. However, the Heart Unit at Birmingham Children's Hospital, has introduced changes to improve and help the transition process.
Both the young person and their parents need to be prepared for transition and eventual transfer to adult services. Planning should start well in advance of transfer, preferably starting around the age of 12 or 13 years depending on the childs maturity. The young person needs to understand their condition, any symptoms, how to recognise changes in their symptoms, and how to listen to what their bodies are telling them. As a result, they should then be able to take appropriate actions. They will need to know how to seek help and how to work together with the health professionals involved in their care.
They need to be encouraged to take responsibility for their own medication at the earliest age possible. The Cardiac Liaison team and the clinic nurses are available to play a part in educating the young person and their families in adapting to this gradual change from childhood to adult life.
At the Adolescent Clinics held at Birmingham Children's Hospital, the Doctor will see a child alone for part of the consultation and parents will be involved for the rest. If the child is to be seen at one of these clinics, the child and parents will receive a letter from their cardiac consultant, explaining about the clinic before their visit. At the Adolescent Clinic, relevant information will be available to help educate the child on all aspects of their condition: this will include health and lifestyle planning.
In the later stages of transition, anyone affected by complex, ongoing conditions will be introduced to a member of an adult team from University Hospital Birmingham (U.H.B.), which is made up of consultants and a G.U.C.H.(Grown Up Congenital Heart) Clinical Nurse Specialist. This introduction will usually take place at the last visit to the Childrens Hospital. At this joint clinic the child and parents will be given details of their next clinic appointment at U.H.B. and be given details of contact numbers and information about who can be contacted in the interim. Written summaries of past treatment and operations will be given for the child's handheld records before their transfer. Young people with less complex problems will be seen at their local cardiac units, but will still receive the same help during the transition period.
The transition can be a very worrying time for all concerned, which is why the U.H.B. Team is available at all times during that time to help the process go smoothly and to help the child and their family look to the future.


Heritage Village apartments are conveniently located in central Hatfield. However, I would not enjoy living there. While the complex has a relatively quiet and green setting, management is not on top of maintenance. The lawn areas are overgrown and the sign for the complex is embarrassingly falling down. In addition, some of the residents are using their balconies or outdoor space as storage areas for their junk which detracts from the overall look of the property.
Call Heritage Village home today. These apartments for rent in Hatfield, PA, are a great option for solo renters, families and everyone in between. Bringing a vehicle? There's lots of parking available at this property.
I'm interested in Heritage Village. Please let me know when this listing is available on ApartmentGuide.